Mount Pisgah

Mount Pisgah sits between the Coast Fork of the Willamette River and the arboretum grounds near Eugene-Springfield, Oregon, and is a genuinely popular public destination — a combined Lane County park (Buford Recreation Area) and nonprofit arboretum, with trails, an annual mushroom festival, and a $5 parking fee.[1] Our own database doesn't classify this entry as "Public Access" the way it does most other locations in this batch, and that hedge looks right: we found nothing confirming that rock or mineral collecting is actually permitted within the arboretum/park boundary itself. What is well established regionally is that the gravel bars of the Willamette River system nearby produce agate and jasper, and the area's Eocene-to-Oligocene basalts are the right kind of rock to host zeolites like the heulandite and mesolite in our specimen list. Treat this as a general-area lead near a real public park, not a confirmed in-park collecting site.

Mount Pisgah is southeast of Eugene-Springfield, between the Coast Fork Willamette River and the butte itself; the arboretum/park has a developed entrance and parking area ($5/car).[1] Any river-gravel collecting would be along the Willamette system outside the park boundary — exact public gravel-bar access points were not sourced.

UNVERIFIED. If any collecting happens here, general regional practice would be gravel-bar sorting along river frontage rather than digging — but we found no source confirming this is permitted within Mount Pisgah park/arboretum land itself, and park/nature-preserve land often prohibits removing natural materials.

Land status: Mount Pisgah is managed jointly as a Lane County park (Buford Recreation Area) and by the nonprofit Mount Pisgah Arboretum.[1] We could not confirm whether rock or mineral collecting is permitted anywhere within that managed boundary — many county parks and arboretums prohibit removing natural materials, and this one likely does too. Before planning a collecting trip here, confirm directly with Lane County Parks or the Mount Pisgah Arboretum; if collecting isn't allowed on-site, look instead to public river-gravel access points along the Willamette system nearby. Land status for actual collecting is unverified — confirm before visiting.